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Best Practices for Hiring a Diverse Workforce
To hire a more diverse workforce, you need to start by taking a step back and looking at your hiring process from...
On the Lookout: Recruitment Trends for This Year and Beyond
Technology and the competition for talent are changing the recruiting landscape significantly. Artificial intelligence...
Is THIS Why the Candidate Said No to Your Job Offer?
Yours is a nice company filled with nice people who work hard and aim to do their best in their jobs. Your receptionists are pleasant. Your HR department is filled with people-persons. You feel your managers are professional and have great...
Is This Why No One’s Sharing Your Job Postings on Social Media?
Your company has what you believe is a pretty nifty job-referral program for employees: if they refer someone who ends up working for you for at least six months, the referring worker gets a few hundred dollars. So you ask your employees to let...
Ideas for Revamping Your Employee Rewards Program
As the new year begins and new starts….start, it may be a good time to take a look at your current employee rewards program to make sure it’s one that helps your employees feel valued and engaged. Take a look below for five ideas you may want to...
3 Things Your Staffing Firm Can’t Control
As much as your staffing firm works – and works exceptionally hard – to ensure that its temporary associates show up on time to your assignments and provide exceptional value for you while they perform the tasks and complete the projects you need...
Hiring Managers’ New Year’s Resolutions
The Big Day is behind us. Now on to the next chapter: New Year’s. Most of us probably have some personal and career-oriented New Year’s Resolutions we’re considering: get fit, take a class/get some technical certification, eat better, go to more...
Finding Those Elusive Creatures: Top Talent
Non-news flash: the best talent is incredibly hard to find today. With the unemployment rate at its lowest in 17 years, most people who want to work more than likely have found it This low unemployment rate means that employers are willing to look...
Why – Oh, Why! – is Organizational Change So Hard?
If you work in HR or in some management or leadership capacity at your company and if you’ve ever been part of a committee charged with some form of “organizational change management” at your firm, we don’t have to tell you plain fraught such a...
Busting Freelancer Myths
Do you think freelancers/independent contractors are good just for “quick fix” projects? You may want to think again because these types of professionals can be a great way to take advantage of their skills without committing to them full time....
Attracting the Attention of Top Talent: 5 Tactics
How hard is it to attract top talent in today’s hot candidate’s market? Really tough. With unemployment at a 16-year low, with just 1.17 unemployed job seekers for every open position (compared to almost 7 unemployed job hunters to vacancies in...